. A history of British birds . -coverts,and the wing-primaries, black; all the other parts of theplumage pure white ; legs and toes pale blue. The whole length is nearly eighteen inches. From thecarpal joint to the end of the wing, eight inches and a half;the first quill-feather the longest in the wing. In young birds of the year the dark-coloured parts of theplumage are tinged with brown; the scapulars edged withreddish-brown, and the tail-feathers are brownish. Duringthe second year, till the autumn moult, some of the elongateddark feathers are still reddish-brown at the end. The young in do
. A history of British birds . -coverts,and the wing-primaries, black; all the other parts of theplumage pure white ; legs and toes pale blue. The whole length is nearly eighteen inches. From thecarpal joint to the end of the wing, eight inches and a half;the first quill-feather the longest in the wing. In young birds of the year the dark-coloured parts of theplumage are tinged with brown; the scapulars edged withreddish-brown, and the tail-feathers are brownish. Duringthe second year, till the autumn moult, some of the elongateddark feathers are still reddish-brown at the end. The young in down are of a greyish-white, variegated withbrownish-grey on the crown, back and sides, an irregularline of blackish spots down the middle of the rump, and awell-defined blackish line on each side from the wings tothe rump terminating in a black tuft; the bill black, anddistinctly curved; a black streak leading from the base tothe eye, and beyond it; legs and toes greenish-blue. LIMICOL/E. BLACK-WINGED STILT. 305 , HiMANTOPUS CANDiDUS, BonnateiTe*. BLACK-WINGED STILT. Himantopus melanopterns. HiMANTOPUS, Brissonf.—Beak long, slender, slightly recurved at the tip, cylin-drical, flattened at the base, compressed at the point, both mandibles groovedon the sides along the basal half of their length. Nostrils lateral, linear, elon-gated. Legs very long and slender, three toes in front, the middle toe united tothe outer toe by a membrane of considerable size, and to the interior toe by amembrane of smaller size ; claws or nails very small, flat. Wings very lone thefirst quill feather considerably the longest in the wing. The Black-winged Stilt was first recorded as a visitorto these islands by Sir Robert Sibbald,| who describes and * Tableau Encycloped. et Method., i. p. 24 (1790). t Ornithologie, V. p. 33 (1760). X Scotia Illustrata, II., p. 18, pis. xi. fig. 1, and xiii. fig. 2 (1684). VOL. III. R R 306 SCOI-OPACID.^. figures under the name of Himantopus one of two s
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